Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 10:11-14
Jesus, “You must be born again…”
When is your birthday? Do you know the minute/hour you were born?
Being born again is a one time, immediate salvation experience. Sanctification is a life long salvation experience.
On the cross Jesus said, “It is finished.” Not, “I am finished.”
If you have been born again, that is finished. But you are not finished.
John 15:1-5
“I am not working to be saved. I am working because I am saved.”
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 10:1-10
Reminder of Sin
~You keep reminding yourself of your sins.
You keep reminding yourself of what you said and did, instead of what Jesus said and did.
1 John 3:18-21
1 John 1:9, Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 10:10
Replacement thinking because this is replacement living.
~Satan keeps reminding you—and everyone who will listen—of your sin.
Revelation 12:10, Zechariah 3:1-2 (NIV)
The devil’s not wrong about your sin, but he is wrong about the cure for your sin.
Satan’s obsessed with the sins of others…don’t you be.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 9:27-28
These two verses are the two ways everyone will leave this earth and enter eternity.
When Jesus comes a second time, there will be no more dealing with sin, it will all be about enjoying salvation for those who are in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
We’re not waiting for the “appointment.” We’re waiting for Him.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 9:22-28
An appointed time:
Acts 17:31, Job 14:5
God isn’t going to give you more than your appointed time. Your time is right now.
~Let heaven affect you as much as possible.
~Spend the rest of the time you have affecting heaven as much as possible.
Revelation 12:12 Satan understands an appointed time.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 9:15-22
Testament and testator is the same as our last will and testament.
Old Testament law, before that the Passover, before that God used an animal to cover Adam and Eve’s sin.
Death is the consequence of sin and death is the payment for sin.
Blood is not the issue. An animal couldn’t just be injured for the blood, it had to die. Blood that leads to death is the payment for sin.
We must never forget: good is not the issue, bad is the issue.
In an unexpected twist, Satan wants good to be the issue. In a very superficial way, he wants you to do good in order to not think about the bad.
Only Christians teach that God is reaching down to man. Everyone else tends toward man reaching up to God.
John 20:27 NIV
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 9:14-15
Sin is work
Sin brings separation, Isaiah 59:2
So we need a mediator, 1 Timothy 2:5
Sin brings death, Romans 6:23
Sin brings debt, that’s what redemption means
Physical law, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 9:1-14
Conscience: the depths of our personality; the center of who we are, the inner man; a part of our heart/soul/spirit/body
The Good: Light and Bread
The Problem: Not everyone was welcome, and, no one’s conscience was completely cleared.
Ritual should lead to relationship. When relationship fails, we fall back to ritual & rules.
“Should do” leads to “want to.”
Relationship rather than just ritual:
Realization of something missing
Time
Guest Speaker Rev. Larry Loggins
Message: “I know…you.”
Text: Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
“I know…”
Psalm 119:105
The Word of God: reading, listening, watching…
In that order.
“…you.”
Jeremiah 1:5
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
Colossians 1:16, “by Jesus and for Jesus.”
What you are called to, what you were made for, should eventually become the most important thing in life. That ‘s where meaning, purpose, love…everything comes from.
Message: At just the right time
Text: Galatians 4:4
Luke 2:1-7
Caesar Augustus—The first Roman emperor. The beginning of emperor worship, the emperor as divine, the emperor as god.
Quirinius—The first census, not the second.
Matthew 2:1, 16
Herod the king, Herod the Great, “Herod the butcher”
Caesar Augustus, “It is safer to be Herod’s hog than his wife.”
John 3:16 At just the right time
Message: Communion
Text: 1 Corinthians 11:26
If you read this about anyone else it would seem strange, and others would think you strange if you wrote it.
What can learn from the verse?
Jesus died.
But, Jesus is not dead. Death is not the end of Jesus, it’s the beginning of new life.
Jesus is coming. This is the end of all temporal things. The coming of Jesus is when His church can finally stop…until then we always have work to do.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Backtrack 2, Acts 10:34-43
Achieve: vs 35
It can no longer stop here, because we can’t do it
Discipleship: vs 36
“Not so, Lord” “He is Lord of all”
Receive: vs 43
Acts 4:12, John 1:12
The thing that saves us, keeps us saved.
Grace never was fair and never will be. Praise the Lord!
A.B. Simpson, "Learn this secret: that you are not sanctified for all time so that there will be no more need for grace and victory; but you have grace for this moment and the next moment and by the time life is spent, you shall have had a whole ocean of His grace."
Ron Hutchcraft,"Any longtime Christian who does not still find God's grace amazing needs to take an honest look at his or her own sinfulness."
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 8:1-13 (10)
(Backtrack to a couple weeks ago: the story of Cornelius and Simon Peter, Acts 10)
Cornelius is religious and lost. Peter is religious and prejudice.
Yesterday…the day before.
Whatever question you are asking God, He could often turn around and ask you.
Does the amount that God uses us correlate to the amount that we are willing to be used…the amount we are willing to change to be used.?
What might need to change?
James Pagan, Cindy Moye, and Sarah Riddle have something to say..
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 8:1-13
To go from trying to obey the Godly law that is written down to trying to obey the Godly law that is written on your heart.
To go from knowing things about Jesus to knowing Him personally, is a huge change in relationship and spiritual life.
Analogy: When most of us started attending church we came to get, but a huge change takes place in our spiritual life when we start attending church in order to give…and we actually receive so much more!
Philippians 3:7-10
Before the spiritual change: “What’s wrong with it?”
“How far away can I get?”
After the spiritual change: “What’s right with it?”
“How close can I get?”
John 14:15
Philippians 3:11-12
1 John 4:19
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 8:1-13
This Hebrew/Christian pastor quotes heavily from Jeremiah, who had what looks like 40 years of failure. God’s people were no longer listening to the law, the Word, or the prophets.
Colossians 1:27
Holy Spirit speaking to you: Romans 8:16
Old Country Preacher, “I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”
Matthew 28:18-19 Watching for stop signs along the way.
Acts 16:6-10
If you think it’s wrong, stop immediately. If you think it’s right, tread forward carefully.
Holy Spirit speaking to others:
Acts 10 Simon Peter and Cornelius
Cornelius first by a vision and an angel
Simon Peter next by Jesus, a vision, and Holy Spirit.
Whoever the Holy Spirit sends you to, He always goes ahead of you.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 7:23-28
“To the uttermost.” – completely, perfectly, finally, for all time and eternity.
From – To
From: Getting past your past.
What you have done.
What others have done to you.
Replacement discipline.
To: Now and to the end of time
Jesus is praying for you.
Others are waiting for you…and others are depending on you.
Robert McCheyne, "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me!"
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 7:11-22
What is wrong with the priesthood? What is wrong with keeping the law?
The law is perfect, there is nothing wrong with the law…there is something wrong with me!
Will the Holy Spirit lead you to something He knows you will fail at?
Galatians 3:24-25 (KJV)
Learning real dependance often comes from failure, finally getting that I’m not able to do it on my own.
John 15:4-5
*Get better at obeying the inner impulse that is the Holy Spirit. Immediate obedience, because delayed obedience is disobedience. This is the difference between a law written on paper or written on your heart.
*Honestly, why are you doing it? What is your motive? We can do a good thing for a bad reason.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 7:1-4
The shadow of the cross falls backward and forward.
Can you see Jesus in people?
Jesus is not like Melchizedek. Melchizedek is like Jesus.
Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel…
John 8:56-58
Matthew 25:31-37, 40 Notice anything about this list? How are the lists alike, the common theme?
Can you see Jesus in the times?
Romans 8:18-22
Can you see the clock speeding up?
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 7:1-10
Can you see Jesus?
The shadow of the cross falls backward and forward.
Jesus is not like Melchizedek. Melchizedek is like Jesus.
Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel…
John 8:56-58
Giving to Jesus:
“If you will not give according to how you have been blessed. Then may you be blessed according to how you give.”
All any of us have to give is from what God has already given us. Do you think God is going to run out?
Receiving from Jesus:
Humble enough to recognize your need. Humble enough to let someone pray for you.